Though synchronized swimming may strike some as a marginalized, even obscure sport, for others it clocks in as a way of life...
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2008
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Although she may remain virtually unheard of today, Australian swimmer, diver, vaudeville entertainer, and silent film star...
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2003
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This documentary captures rhythms in the life and career of famed cinema choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976). In the...
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1998
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The history of color photography in motion pictures is lovingly detailed with vibrant film clips and first-person interviews...
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1998
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In 1974, MGM Studios released its first compilation of musical highlights from 45 years of Hollywood extravaganzas. Entitled...
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1994
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Actress Esther Williams, a legend of American swimming, hosts this instructional video that outlines how any child can be...
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1984
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It's ironic that MGM, in such dire financial straits in 1974 that it was selling its fabled back lot and auctioning off...
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1974
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This is a slightly uneven presentation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about two evil princes, their pure-hearted brother,...
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1961
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Greedy family members engage in bitter infighting over the ownership of a circus. It all begins as a ruthless, corrupt father...
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Hillary Allen
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1961
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In her second film for Universal-International, Esther Williams stars as Laura, a high-priced fashion model. While working in...
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Laura
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1958
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Moviedom's favorite aquatic star Esther Williams made her TV dramatic debut--as a villainess--in this 1957 episode of the NBC...
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Vicki
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1957
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Lois Conway
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1956
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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Amytis
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1955
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Julie Hallerton
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1953
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Esther Williams stars in this button-cute musical about a health-conscious family of swimmers who fall in with con man Windy...
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Katy Higgins
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1953
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Whitney Young
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1952
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Who else but Esther Williams could star in a romantic drama (with musical numbers) bearing a title like this? In Million...
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Annette Kellerman
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1952
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Debbie Telford
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1951
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Mimi Bennett
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1950
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This formula Esther Williams musical casts the star as Midwestern carnival swimmer Christine Duncan, in love with bandleader...
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Christine Riverton Duncan
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1950
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So baseball pictures never make money, eh? Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their...
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K.C. Higgins
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1949
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Eve Barrett
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1949
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The title of this MGM musical alone should tip you to the fact that Esther Williams is the star. In this one, she plays a...
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Rosalind Reynolds
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1948
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Maria Morales
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1947
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In this aqueous musical comedy, an opera singer brings his son to Michigan's Mackinac Island where the son falls in love with...
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Nora Cambaretta
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1947
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The presence of William Powell as legendary showman Flo Ziegfeld at the beginning of Ziegfeld Follies might lead an...
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1946
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This Technicolor musical remake of the 1936 comedy classic Libeled Lady isn't quite up to the standards of the original, but...
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Connie Allenbury
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1946
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William Powell plays a cynical con man who graduates from penny-ante operations to a big-time charity racket. The scam...
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May Lorrison
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1946
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This aquatic musical is set at a mountain resort in the beautiful Sierra Nevadas where a heroic Army Air Corpsman has come...
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Cynthia Glenn
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1945
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Opening in England during the middle of World War II, A Guy Named Joe tells the story of Pete Sandidge (Spencer Tracy), a...
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1944
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If you've never seen a '40s singing, swimming musical this may be the one to catch. Featuring a mammoth cast, including such...
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Caroline Brooks
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1944
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Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's...
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1942
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